Example sentences of "[coord] set [adv prt] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Almost 30 when he was finally crowned at Scone , and with his naturally introspective , melancholy temperament soured by long , enforced idleness , he drove himself to become a man of action and set about destroying those who had grown rich and powerful in his absence , especially the Albany faction . |
2 | With this attitude , despite the bad start , we knew it was going to be a Happy New Year after all , and set about restoring some order to our home … , . |
3 | In preparation for the interview , the braggart should think of all the uncomfortable , difficult questions he or she might be asked and set about preparing honest answers to them . |
4 | He was also a man of means and in 1839 , as a young architect , he bought up an estate in Cheltenham known as the Park and set about making fourteen acres of formal gardens and building six of speculative housing . |
5 | She had succeeded in putting Luke out of her thoughts by concentrating purely on each present moment , each new impression , with the same degree of single-mindedness that he himself was capable of , and with a sense of pleasant anticipation she studied her map and set out to see some of the art treasures . |
6 | In 1987 the Shared Earth Trust took over the management of the farm and set out to reverse this process , establishing a long term programme to develop Denmark Farm as a haven for wildlife and a genetic bank from which wildlife species will be able to spread out and recolonise the surrounding countryside when future agricultural policies make this possible . |
7 | sweet and fruity Banish all thoughts of guilt at once and set out to make this a summer of indulgence . |
8 | Bruce and his four brothers threw the English out of Dumfries castle and set off to capture other fortresses . |
9 | Eventually they would change into shorts and T-shirts and set off to run two or more miles around the outskirts of town . |